Overview of Mail-Art projects provided by the 99 authors of this blog which are all active in Mail-Art. If you want to enter information as well. Send an e-mail to info@iuoma.org The blog can contain all kind of projects the group wants to share. There is also a blog for a general Mail-Art Discussion. All mail-art projects published here are automatically archived in a large database for historical archiving.

Global Photo Collective will seek and provide spaces for the exhibition of the photos in Venezuela.

Work will be selected by country for a special publication.

Terms and conditions

1.The pictures must be the intellectual property of the sender. Global Photo Collective is not responsible for plagiarism or unauthorized copying. Plagiarised photograph or photo montages will not be published.

3.Participants authorize the reproduction of their work unrestricted of systems, media or countries with any subscription rights. Participants are responsible for ensuring there are no third party rights or royalties payable.Taking partin thisproject meansfull acceptanceof these rules.

4.Data from participants will not be used for any commercial purpose.

5.Winning photos from previous competitions will not be accepted.

6.Every photo must contain on the reverse the photographer’s full name, nationality, email, and signature with the following statement,

"I testify that the work presented here is my original work and I have the authorization of the person photographed to present this work.”

24 September 2011

An important event that, promoted by Sílvia Soares Art Gallery, invites all the around world artists to participate on this Tribute to John Lennon. Art Work can be painting, sculpture, drawing, photograph,stamps, poems or any other objects associated to the theme.Exhibition from 3 December to 31 December. Opening in 3 December, 9 p.m.

MEDIA :: FREE SUPPORT :: FREEDIMENSIONS :: FREEDeadline : 30 NOVEMBER 2011At the end of the exhibition, Sílvia Soares Art Gallery will send documentation to all ARTISTS.

19 September 2011

You are invited to pARTicipateby sending secrets by mail to the gallery projectThe SECREt eXCHANGEThe SECREt eXCHANGE is displayed at theTell Me Tell Mesurvey exhibitionorganized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia

please send toTell Me Tell Me SECRETSNational Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, KoreaSan 58-4, Makgye-dongGwacheon-si, Gyeonggi-doSeoul, Korea 427-701your work accepted from now and throughout the exhibitionup to DEADLINE of19 FEBRUARY 2012****Please send Secretsin any medium.(secrets, about secrets, your secrets, other’s secrets, secrets that please, secrets that release, secrets that make you free,)

Your ENVELOPES* containing secrets are for display in the exhibition.Gallery visitors may select from these envelopes on the condition that they themselves reveal secrets in exchange.Their secrets will be posted back to the corresponding artists selected; and this ongoing process of ‘selection’ will continuously alter the display throughout the period of the two exhibitions.

In addition to your secrets, please include an INFORMATION PAGE*** for our reference with each envelope (A4 or Legal Size).This page is for our records and will be removed from the envelope.The page should include the following:1.Name, address, email contact, facebook address, etc.2.Name of your work.3.How did you hear about The SECREt eXCHANGE?(from which person(s) and by which means:email, facebook, IUoMA, blog, etc)4.What are the areas of your ‘practise’ (in prioritized order)?5.Other information, verbal or visual, of your choice, including back of the page.A margin for book-binding of 4 cm (roughly 1 ¾”) should be left empty on the left-hand side of the page and the bottom 1/3 of the page should be left empty for our notation.The backs of sheets may also be used for any additions of your choice.

Exchanged secrets and documentation will be sent to you.Please pass this invitation on by all means at your disposal (facebook, email, rumour).

Note:The SECRET EXCHANGE is an ongoing project, first publicly implemented in 1976, it will be continuing into the future in morphing form, guise, disguise.

RADIO OZONEBroadcast(declarative voice)Secrets are everywhere:Social Science unmasks restraints,Journalists blow the whistle,Insiders leak to the press,Investigators......Secrets waver betweenconcealment and revelation, areprobed and shielded, yield equally tomoral concern and ethical goose-chasesor resist both with obedience,blind or otherwise.Secrets are thestuff of State and Mind, from A forautobiography to Z for Zealot.Select artists’ secrets, i.e.: is asecret, acts as or is like a secret,refers to secrets or requests them,masquerades as or masks a secret.secretXchangesecrets of money, love, etcgrigori antonin

18 September 2011

If you want to participate in the next photobooth book, mail in four photobooth style photos with dialogue bubbles documenting a photobooth performance by November 30thm 2011

to:

PhotoBooth Book,

PO Box 1424,

Jupiter, FL 33468

U.S.A.

For quality control, no electronic submissions please - original photobooth or photobooth like photos only - no copies! No returns. Future exhibitions to be announced to participants. Be sure to use the prescribed format - 4 photobooth style image size and include dialog bubbles.

Steps for submission:

1. Take/make 4 photos of your photobooth performance.

2. Put this in an envelop - do not email

3. On a piece of paper draw dialogue bubbles for talk, think and/or holler (or you can collage from the ones provided at http://ginnylloyd.blogspot.com)

I was born in the year of the golden rabbit and this year is only the second time that particular combination has come around in my lifetime. To celebrate, I am hosting a yearlong Year of the Golden Rabbit Mail Art Call.

So far, I've received rabbit mail (via post and in a group dedicated to the call at IUOMA) from 105 people, 211 pieces in all. They are from:

16 September 2011

I collect all logo's that were made for IUOMA (see http://www.iuoma.org). They are published on a blog (see:http://iuomalogos.blogspot.com/ , but I intend to use them also in a book that is being prepared. If you have any logo's (and add the name of the creator), I am most happy to receive them at info@iuoma.org or you can also send prints and designs to:

IUOMAP.O. Box 10554801 BB BredaNETHERLANDS.

The IUOMA started in 1988 and has it's own Social Network at: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/ where almost 2000 members arrange their activities from that place. We expect two celebrations soon: The 2000th member, and also in November the 3 year on NING.

Save the Mail Art Call As some of you may know the Post office is in danger of being shut down. Please send mail art about why you love the post office

to:

Save the Mail 1304 N. Beeline Hwy #29 Payson AZ 85541U.S.A.

This will provide a platform to show support for the post office, and I'm sure the postal workers will enjoy seeing mail art of this nature. More info about the post office here: http://www.savethepostoffice.com/

I am asking women to define the word WOMAN, not based on what a dictionary says, but on the woman’s personal experiences. I will incorporate these definition submissions into an editioned hand-bound artist dictionary. I hope to receive submissions from women on every continent. Through this project I will engage with other women around the world and across cultures and create a contemporary definition of who we as womenare.

Please fill out the attached form if you wish to participate and return the form to me by email. You can also contact me for more information

Your full name (as you want it to appear) for acknowledgement in the book:

In what country do you reside?

By submitting this completed Definition Submission Form to Sherri Blase, you areagreeing that Sherri Blase may reproduce and edit your words and submission, in anyformat, in an artist book. I reserve the right to create digital copies of the artist book at alater date.

Please pass this along to any women you think would be interested in contributing to the project.

12 September 2011

Who is Ann? For me she is a real person.For you she's a mythical femail.

Let's construct together the book of Ann!

How does she feel?How does she thinks?How does she act?Is she a rebel?Is she a mother?Is she the salt of the earth?

Free size and medium. Text and poems are also welcome. Deadline for contributions is 31 December 2011.All the contributions will be united in a time capsule.Documentation on this blog: http://thebookofann.blogspot.com/Unfriendly femail mail art will be banned.

The Face of Jesus Exhibition, which was shown for 3 months at the Angles & Art Gallery in Haverhill, Massachusetts, has been picked up in its entirety by Our Lady of Lasalette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts....A National Shrine with thousands of visitors each year. The New Opening will take place on Thanksgiving Day and will run through January 2012. An estimated 300,000 + people will view this Exhibition. If you are an artist and would like to participate...

Send your work to :

The Face of Jesus P.O. Box 1212, Haverhill, MA, 01831 USA

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 20, 2011

Please be creative, but respectful of the subject matter. No shock art, Jesus humor, or art that promotes hate aimed at any group or individual.

Thank you to every mailartist/artist who has sent in work to make this Show an Event that everyone is talking about and enjoying. Invite other artists to participate and help me to bring a Mailart Exhibition that is open to everyone and ultimately is meant to bring hope, brotherhood, and love to all.

10 September 2011

The Diary of a Young GirlTheme: a Mailart exhibition dedicated to Anna Frank and to International Holocaust Remembrance Day. January 27th, 1945: death camp Auschwitz was liberatedSize and technique freeNo jury, no returns, no feesExhibition in 2012 in Giulianova, ItalyDocumentation online gallery and catalogue to all participant if it will possibile (because of sponsor)All works via post, no email please.Info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com or image000@libero.itDeadline to be received January 2nd, 2012

OPEN CALL Open Call for MailArtists and MicroPoets (Artists, Designers, Photographers and Poets) to participate in a MailArt Collaboration Project entitled MEDIZEN at AIRY Gallery in Kofu-City, Japan during Autumn 2011.

DESCRIPTION MEDIZEN is a play on the idea of Zen Meditation as a form of medicine,presented as a Synodic Moon (Mood) Calendar thirty paintings representing the Moon's 29.5 day journey from new to full, and back again.

INSTRUCTIONS Click here to a look at the MEDIZEN Paintings Imagine yourself sitting in the chair you find in the painting you choose. Find yourself transported to that world, Alice-in-Wonderland-style! Express your sensory experience on a postcard :- In the form of MailArt and/or MicroPoetry inspired by your Medizen experience.

DEADLINES Competition runs from 5th September to 2nd October but the earlier you get your postcards in, the more votes they could get at the Festival, which begins 23rd September, so get designing!

EXHIBITION Entries will be on display in the AIRY Gallery during the build up to the festival and will be exhibited online on the julieajoules website (here) Entries will be exhibited at the Kofu International Art Festival from 23rd September to 2nd October 2011.

JUDGES The MailArt section will be adjudicated by the panel of artists that form the board of AIR-Y, co-ordinated by artist Izumi Sakomoto, from a selection of finalists selected by visitors to the Kofu International Arts Festival.

The MicroPoetry section will be adjudicated by founder of the VEC, Peformance Poet Rod Summers.

PRIZES Winners will be announced on the 10th October. There will be one overall winner in each category. Both winners will receive a stationery set of both the winning works in the form of: a set of postcards (5 of each), 2 matching notepads (one of each)and 2 photofinish notebooks, one blank (MailArt winner cover) and one lined (MicroPoetry winner cover).

RULES Entrance is free. You may enter as many times as you wish, in either or both categories.Nasty stuff will be ignored or suitably disposed of.Poetry postcards should be submitted in English; although all language submissions will be considered, they will be adjudicated on the basis of form only if no translation is provided. The Judges’ decisions are final. Judging is blind, based on the front of the postcard only. Please do not include signatures or other identifying marks on the front of your postcard!

On the back of your postcard, remember to include: The number of the Medizen painting that inspired your design or poem (e.g. MOON01). Your postal address, if you would like a postcard in return. Your email address, if you would like your work to be included in the gallery and e-shop of the julieajoules website.

SEND YOUR ENTRIES TO:MEDIZENC/O JULIEA.JOULES, AUTUMN ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AIRY (GALLERY)2-37-2 Marunouchi, Kofu-city, Yamanashi 400-0031 JAPAN The visual poet julieajoules will be in residence at AIRY in Japan during Autumn 2011. A photolog diary will be updated on a Wednesday and Sunday starting 7th September until 30th October, see that photolog here. During the residency, self-directed work includes:working with Medizen through thirty consecutive days (poems and photography),practising spoken Japanese and refitting the e-shop. Walking, bus and train travel : observing Koyo (Autumn colours). Gallery-based work includes:an artist talk on 24 September and a workshop on 1st October,as well as participation in the Art Festival.

9 September 2011

The Shadow is a psychological term introduced by the late Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. It is everything in us that is repressed, undeveloped and denied, both dark and light. The shadow represents all that the conscious person does not wish to acknowledge within themselves. Jung emphasized the importance of being aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness. Otherwise we project these attributes onto others.Honor your shadow by giving it visual form.All mediums are welcome.Deadline: December 31 2011.Artworks will be permanently displayed on my website.http://www.alchemicalwedding.com/mailart/mailart.htm

Videogame is going to be the next medium to be considered an art form per se. “Insert Coin” features at the same time technological artefacts, modern, and more “traditional” works (paintings, installations and performances) and an exposition of Postal Art. The immaterial sculpture of software meets the physics of Mail Art in the concept of playable network. :)